Isbn: 9780226605685 - cartography: the ideal and its history (13 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, Edney argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of mapssea charts versus thematic maps, for examplein the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. …

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what 'cartography' has come to mean and include. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps--sea charts versus thematic maps, for example--in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Cartography - The Ideal and Its History | The Ideal and Its History | Matthew H Edney | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2019 | The University of Chicago Press | EAN 9780226605685 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…